Mick Philpott, whose six kids died in a fire he started, is said to have been moaning non-stop

Philpott – whose six kids died in a blaze he started – reckons he should not be in the same part of prison as the murderer of April Jones, because he did not mean for his children to die.

They are both being kept apart from other inmates at Wakefield Prison and spend their days watching TV in their cells.

Last night a source said: “Philpott is a non-stop moaner. He moans about the warmth and quality of his food, that his letters aren’t arriving on time and now he’s moaning that he shouldn’t be locked up near Mark Bridger.

“He says Bridger is a nonce and shouldn’t be anywhere near the rest of the ‘normal’ prison population. ”

A source at the prison

“He says Bridger is a nonce – a child sex abuser – and shouldn’t be anywhere near the rest of the ‘normal’ prison population. He is unbelievable. He is so stupid that he doesn’t think he’s done anything wrong.

“He thinks he is a victim too and as such he is not a danger to anyone else.

”He says he had planned to rescue the children from the blaze but it all went wrong so he’s not as bad as someone like Bridger who went out looking to kill.”

Bridger, 47, and Philpott, 56, are allowed out of their cells for an hour each day to exercise, to meet legal representatives or have visits.

They pay £1 a week for the right to watch telly in their cells on small flat-screen Freeview TVs.

In May, Bridger was found guilty of April’s abduction and murder in mid Wales.

He was moved to Wakefield from Strangeways nick in Manchester two weeks after being handed a whole-life tariff sentence, which means he will die behind bars.

Philpott, from Derby, is serving life with a ­recommendation that he be locked up for 15 years.

He started the blaze at his home in May 2012, in a bid to frame his estranged partner after they were locked in a custody fight.

Now he is facing claims from two women that he raped them in a filthy caravan he kept in the garden of his house.